Digestion experiments with poultry
By: by E.W. Brown ; prepared under the supervision of E.A. de Schweinitz
Series: Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry -- no. 56; Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Animal Industry) -- 56
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Poultry; Feed utilization efficiency; Experiments
Notes: Bibliography: p. 106-112.
Table of contents: title: Prefatory; title: Introduction. pp. 7; title: Purpose of the present paper; title: Certain features of nitrogenous end=products of birds and mammals. pp. 9; title: Review of the literature on the digestive secretions of birds. pp. 16; title: Review of the literature on the digestibility of poultry foodstuffs. pp. 20; title: Meat as a sole diet for poultry. pp. 22; title: The glycogen formation in birds. pp. 23; title: Routine and methods of present experiments. pp. 24; title: Management of the chickens. pp. 26; title: The apparatus for collection of the excrement. pp. 27; title: Method of preservation of the excrement. pp. 28; title: The methods of analysis adopted. pp. 29; title: Details of the present experiments; title: General scheme of the experiments. pp. 43; title: Composition of the food and excrement; title: The corn experiments. pp. 44; title: The oats experiments. pp. 50; title: The wheat experiments. pp. 53; title: The meat experiments. pp. 55; title: The metabolic nitrogen of the excrement. pp. 57; title: A comparison of the present with previous experiments. pp. 59; title: General discussion of the digestion coefficients. pp. 65; title: Some practical aspects of the results; title: Feeding standards based on the digestion coefficients. pp. 66; title: The cost of the principal nutrients; title: Body weights and cost of assimilated nutrients. pp. 69; title: The use of the grains in combination; title: The utilization of sand by poultry. pp. 71; title: Body analyses of poultry and other animals; title: Bearing of present experiments on certain dietary studies. pp. 74; title: Some miscellaneous observations : The retention of food in the crop; title: Notes on the composition of the excrement. pp. 77; title: Summary. pp. 88; title: Bibliography. pp. 106.